[GWMT Forum] Online Conference "The Royal Asiatic Societies and Nineteenth Century Science" - 2-3 October 2025

[Christian Reiss]

Liebe Listenmitglieder,

gerne weise ich auf eine Onlinekonferenz hin, die meine Kollegin Sarah Qidwai
gemeinsam mit Bernard Lightman veranstaltet. Alle
wichtigen Informationen finden Sie im Folgenden.

Online Conference 

Thursday October 2nd to Friday October 3rd, 2025

THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETIES AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY SCIENCE

How did Imperialism shape science, and how did science, in turn, shape
Empire(s)? This conference invites scholars of Asian
Studies, the history of science, and the history of the British Empire to
explore these questions through the lens of the Royal
Asiatic Societies.

Rather than focusing on cultural go-betweens or the circulation of texts, we
turn attention to the institutions that structured
imperial knowledge. From the late eighteenth to the end of the nineteenth
century, nine scholarly societies dedicated to the study
of Asian science, literature, and the arts were founded: Calcutta (1784),
London (1823), Ceylon (1845), Hong Kong (1847), Shanghai
(1857), Japan (1872), Malaysia (1877), North Borneo (1893), and Korea (1900).
Linked to the Royal Asiatic Society in London, these
institutions offer a vital lens for understanding the intersections of
nineteenth-century imperialism, Orientalism, Asian cultural
exchange, and scientific development.

Co-Organized by: Bernard Lightman and Sarah Qidwai

Speakers and Paper Titles

Sarah Qidwai, University of York, “Oriental Knowledge and Imperial Authority:
The Asiatic      Society of Bengal and its
Intellectual Networks”

Jessica Ratcliff, Cornell University, “The Royal Asiatic Society of Great
Britain and Ireland within Local and Imperial Politics,
1827-70”

John McAleer, University of Southampton, “A Colonial Institution: The Ceylon
Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society”

Christine Luk, Tsinghua University, and Bernard Lightman, York University,
“Science and Sinology at the Colonial Frontier: The
Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society”

Qian Yibing, Zhejiang Normal University, “A Scientific Hub in 19th- and
20th-Century China: The NCBRAS and Its Museum”

Annabel Storr, Durham University, “Facilitation, Exploration and Exchange: The
Asiatic Society of Japan in late Nineteenth-Century
British Scientific Networks”

Chen Che-Wei, National Chi Nan University, “Malayan Natural History and the
Straits/Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
(1877-1928)”

Manyong Moon, Jeonbuk National University, “Transactions and the History of
Science in Korea: Korean Studies and Research on
Korean Nature”

Timothy P. Barnard, National University of Singapore, “The Anomaly of North
Borneo”

 For conference schedule and zoom information please go to the following
website:  https://sites.google.com/view/rasconference
[https://sites.google.com/view/rasconference]


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Dr. Christian Reiß

Professur für Wissenschaftsgeschichte/ Professorship for History of Science

Universität Regensburg
D-93040 Regensburg



phone: 0049 941 943 3642
 
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